Alfred barnes



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IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICE FOR ERINTING HAT-BODIES.

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TO ALL WI-IOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, ALFRED BARNES, of Newark, in the county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Printing Hats on Blocks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in tlieart to make and usc the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- 'Figure 1 represents a side view of my invention.

Figure 2 is a side view, partly in section, of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a. new manner of printing het-bodies with suitable designs, and consists in printing the same while they are yet upon the blocks or cones after pouncin'g.

Heretofore hats were printed after having been removed from the block. TheyA were laid iiat upon n suitable bed, and printed in this position. v'l'wo faces of the flat hat-body had thus toghe printed, and a seam was thus left where the body was folded. The printing was, vfurthermore, not very clean and pure.

I print the hat-bodies while they are still stretched upon the cones, and do it by means'of one or more revolving dies, having the required design on their edges. The design will then be very completely printed upon the hat without leaving any seams or imperfect spaces.

A represents a hat-block or'eone, of suitable form or construction, and made of suitable material.

B is the hat-body stretched upon the block in any suitable manner. While thus stretched upon the cone, a rotary die, a, shown by red lines in iig. 2, is applied against the face of the hat-body, and when both the die and the cone are revolved in opposite directions, the design engraved on the edge ofthe die will be transmitted upon the face ofthe hat. l

The die can either be hung on a shaft, l), which is, by means of a gearfwhcel, e, with an internal screwthread, gradually moved in the direction of its axle, in which case the die will print the design in a continuous spiral line upon the face of the hat, as in-fig.' 1, or a number of dies may be mounted on an ordinary shaft, or

on two or more shafts, so as to print insimple concentric lines around the hat-body; or other devices may be employed for printing on the block. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 'Ihe die ct, operated by ,the screw-shaft b, whereby a continuous spiral line is printed upon the body of the hat B while on the cone, as herein described, for the purpose specified.

ALFRED BARNES.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MeNAMAnA," ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

